I'm so excited!

melb2013 · March 2012

I met with a florist today (the one who did that margarita arrangement that I shared) and I'm in love! He is such an artist with an amazing vision. He took all the things I liked and made something beautiful! He had such awesome ideas- exactly what I was looking for. He was cheaper than the other quotes I was getting and I'm getting more flowers for the price!

Yay! Thought I'd share my excitement!

hisbabygirl76 · March 2012

WOOHOO sounds like you found the perfect fit

pittpoint1119 · March 2012

Souds good I might ask you what all questions youu have asked.. I havent started looking at florist yet. What kind of flowers you getting

SRRL18 · March 2012

Yay!

rswans · March 2012

That's awesome! It's good to find someone who can think outside the box with flowers and it's a double bonus when their prices are good.

jmozul01 · March 2012

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[QUOTE]Souds good I might ask you what all questions youu have asked.. I havent started looking at florist yet. What kind of flowers you getting
Posted by pittpoint1119[/QUOTE]

Same here. I haven't started looking at florists either and don't even know what kind of questions to ask! Please post if you don't mind :-)

FutureMrsG2013 · March 2012

Here's a great resource for questions for all different types of vendors

Hope it helps!

http://www.herecomestheguide.com/weddingplanning/region/questions-to-ask-your/

FLGatorGal88 · March 2012

Whoop Whoop!!! Glad it all went well...

joka0606 · March 2012

awesome!! yayy

Smashleyk · March 2012

Yayyyyyy!

SSaltzman87 · March 2012

Nice! That's so awesome!

melb2013 · March 2012

Well I brought pictures of everything with me. I brought pictures of the ceremony site, the reception site, my dress, the bridesmaid dress, and I even brought my shoe and the lamps we're using on some of the tables. The other florists didn't ask to see any of these things, which made it hard for them to figure out my style.

This florist asked to see my dress first and then I brought out my shoes and that's what inspired the rest of his design. I did tell him that I liked orchids and peonies, and he went from there. He took all my colors and came up with amazing ideas for the bouquets (he's going to string pearls through the bouquets!). Then he wanted to see the ceremony space and came up with ideas for the ceremony space.

After looking at the reception and cocktail hour spaces and showing him the lamps, I showed him a photo of a centerpiece I loved from his website. He said, "oh no, you don't want that. That's very expensive." So I asked him how expensive... $325 per centerpiece! OMG. But he took the idea of it and came up with an amazing centerpiece within my budget. I think I may even like it better than the expensive one!

Here's what we ended up with:

Bouquets: mine will have lambs ear, pink peonies, hydrangea, pink ranunculus, pink orchids, and pearls and will be wrapped in the extra lace from my dress

bridesmaids will have lambs ear, pink orchids, pink peonies and will be wrapped in the extra fabric from her dress

Three ceremony arrangements- then have pearls and pink orchids in the vase suspended in the water with tall grasses coming out of the top

Rose petals for the isle

Small square vases with a pink orchid and led light for cocktail tables

Half the tables in a tall arrangement with quince branches (click here to see them)and hydrangia with led lights in the vase

Other half of the tables with our lamps and hydrangia and grasses around the bottoms

Pink orchid arrangements for the card table and ladies room

Sorry for the crazy long post!

melb2013 · March 2012

OH and I did ask all the basic questions: How long he's been doing this, he told me up front he had my date open, I looked at all his portfolios, asked if he had been to my venue (he had once, but it was a while ago), asked about budget, etc.

Asked about delivery fees, and getting mockups done.

mymissingpuzzlepiece · March 2012

Wow mel that's great! I'm still waiting for a quote from our florist.

melb2013 · March 2012

mymissingpuzzle: you're the one who got a $6,000 quote right? Hope you find someone more affordable!

mymissingpuzzlepiece · March 2012

Hell yea that was me lol

I'm hoping to get it down to $1,000. But that may be too hopeful lol

This is what we want:

* Bridal bouquet: Pink peonies, lavender and wildflowers wrapped in lace

* 5 small bouquets for bridesmaids and moh: Small bunches of fresh lavender tied with ribbon

* 7 single long stemmed, large bloom flowers for parents and grandparents

* Wildflower petals scattered down aisle

* Wildflower petals for flower girls to toss

* Here comes the bride sign

* Rental of small vintage table for tree ceremony

* Ten small arrangements of lavender, wildgrass and wildflowers to be tied to outer chairs of the aisle for the ceremony

* Wish tree as guestbook

* Rental of 12 bud vases with 2-3 small wildflower stems per vase for reception

melb2013 · March 2012

And that was $6,000? Crazy!! I thought you were getting some huge arrangements or something! I like the wildflower idea- very vintage. Lovely! Good luck! Let us know how the next florist goes.

mymissingpuzzlepiece · March 2012

No, that wasn't $6,000. That would be crazy! This is what I want now after we cut down basically everything lol

But thanks I will definitely everyone know how it goes.

I'm so excited!

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